ACTIVITIES
What We Do
Membership Privileges
The Collegiate Journalist (TCJ)
SCJ will soon launch an online version of The Collegiate Journalist (TCJ), a magazine designed
to address the issues of the day faced by student media. This online magazine
will be
linked from the SCJ web site. The magazine will offer articles that
suggest ways to improve student media performance and to report the activities
of the national and local SCJ organizations. The magazine will be available
free-of-charge to all visitors to the SCJ web site.
SCJ Newsletter - The Reporter
The National Office produces and distributes a newsletter to the chapters on a
regular basis. Its purpose is to report on the decisions and events of the
National Council, as well as to bring to the chapters' attention other
activities or announcements of interest. Regular features include news from the
National Office, information on the Student Press Law Center, and
initiation/chartering statistics. Local chapters are encouraged to submit
articles or activity updates to the Executive Director for possible inclusion.
SCJ Website
The SCJWebsite was launched in 1998. The site is located at
www.scj.us and
provides a forum in which the Executive Director and other SCJ officials may
publish updated news and events. Names and locations of active chapters, links
to chapter Websites (when available), and contact information for chapters are
available. Serving as a promotional arm of the SCJ executive office, the SCJ
Website offers student journalists applications for membership and criteria for
starting a new chapter at their own school. Additionally, the Website provides
access to electronic versions of The Reporter, annual contest rules, and
the SCJ constitution. The webmaster for the SCJ Website is appointed by, and
reports to, the National Executive Director. All additions, deletions, and
changes to the SCJ Website are approved by the National Executive Director.
National Convention
The chapters of SCJ meet in convention biennially to conduct the business of
SCJ, to discuss their chapter activities and to participate in seminars and
workshops in journalism. Delegates from each attending chapter form the
governing body of SCJ and meet during the convention to decide SCJ national
policy, to establish goals for the next biennium and to elect its national
officers.
College Media Days
Universities that have an SCJ chapter and wish to host a conference that
focuses on student media issues are eligible for a $250 stipend. In order to
qualify for the stipend the chapter must complete a form which can be obtained
from the National Office or downloaded. The $250 stipend will be awarded at the
discretion of the National Executive Director.
Chapter Projects
Each local chapter should develop a number of projects which it annually
supports or which it occasionally promotes for the betterment of its membership
and its college or university community. The following is a list of projects
which could be implemented or which may suggest other projects that could be
adopted.
- Sponsor a banquet or awards program on SCJ Founders’ Day, Dec. 11.
- Cooperate with nearby high schools to interest prospective college
students in journalism.
- Bring outside speakers of prominence to address the chapter or student
body.
- Host a College Media Day.
- Conduct a journalism clinic for freshmen working on campus publications
and media.
- Direct the publishing of student directories, handbooks, and calendars
for the year.
- Conduct an advertising survey of the campus.
- Conduct reader interest surveys on the campus.
- Urge the creation of a media board to help encourage campus student
media.
- Sponsor a campus visual arts club.
- Set up journalism exhibits for special campus occasions such as
homecoming.
- Establish and maintain a journalism laboratory.
- Promote more journalism courses in the college curriculum.
- Offer prizes for freshman and sophomore journalists.
- Arrange inspection and field trips to newspaper plants, publishing
houses, and local radio and television stations.
- Send out an annual publication to the high schools in the area,
promoting the college and its publications.
- Eliminate undergraduate politics from the elections for staff positions
on campus publications.
- Conduct regional meetings and/or workshops for high school publications.
- Establish and maintain a journalism library.
- Launch a campus chapter SCJ newsletter.
- Set up an SCJ electronic bulletin board.
- Invite local professional journalists to serve on the chapter’s advisory
board.
- Form a regional or special interest group of SCJ chapters and exchange
papers.
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